{"id":95,"date":"2019-12-15T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T15:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonnmore.net\/sleet\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2019-12-21T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:27:07","slug":"philpott-v11n2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/home\/issue\/philpott-v11n2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Chandler Philpott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>\n<strong>Our Wedding Is Eight Months\nAway<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>and this morning, the puppy cried at our feet<br>while we slept, and  <br>you untangled yourself from me  <br>and took him out into the cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you returned, I felt the chill  <br>of October lingering on you<br>and our baby (paws dewy, nose wet)<br>pressed himself against your chest<br>found my face in the dark<br>and settled soft between us.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In eight months I will stand beside you<br>and become your wife.<br>Everyone we know will smile up at us  <br>and we will hug their necks, reminisce,  <br>dream of days to come,<br>the whole thing nice, beautiful <br>and unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, the sky barely a whisper,  <br>you reached for me in your sleep:<br>this <br>is the altar,  <br>it came  <br>long before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bio\">Mary Chandler Philpott is an MA student at the University of Virginia. She currently lives in Manassas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Wedding Is Eight Months Away and this morning, the puppy cried at our feetwhile we slept, and you untangled yourself from me and took him out into the cold. When you returned, I felt the chill of October lingering on youand our baby (paws dewy, nose wet)pressed himself against your chestfound my face in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/home\/issue\/philpott-v11n2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Chandler Philpott&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":135,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleetmagazine.com\/archives\/v11_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}